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Women and Economics – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Yellow wallpaper is the most popular of her works
Essayist, social reformer and activist
Travelled the world giving lectures
Advocate for the humane treatment of women with mental issues
Virginia wolf, Sylvia Plath – Other women who wrote about mental
illness in women
The search for the cure for mental illness is worse than the disease
itself
Gilman suffered with the same issue as in the yellow wallpaper in her
post natal depression and being restricted from writing from her
doctor
Reforming marriage and the family
Notorious for her own marriage and family
1884 she marries Charles Walter Stetson reported against her better
judgment
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1885 gave birth to her daughter
1892 the yellow wallpaper – based on her own experiences
Responded to her situation in a radical way by filing for divorce in
1894, at the time it caused a massive outcry
After she was divorced she sent her daughter to live with Stetson and
his second wife – criticized for abandoning her family
If you were divorced it was put in the newspaper
Reason for divorce was the fault of CPG, and willful neglect, at the
time it was always the fault of the women
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When the press reported on her marriage, they highlight that in the
marriage to Stetson she became close friends with her neighbors and
their daughter got close to Stetson (imply a relationship but do not
frown on it) instead draw attention on Gilman for being selfish for
wanting to pressure an intellectual life
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Three voices of women and equality at
the time
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She felt a restriction on her life because she had a child to care for, a
man in her position would not have this to deal with, she was the one
responsible for her daughter
Many women in the 18th and 19th century drank vinegar (gentile
society) – if you take it large amounts it can kill you, in small regular
amounts it can alter your constitution, used vinegar to temper
themselves, to keep them edgy and nervous
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Herland 1915 she questions why the duty of child rearing only done by
women, husband has as much right to risen their child as she did
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– she fought against the regulation of women who were
forced to be wives and mothers only and could not peruse intellectual
ventures
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Forward looking socialist’s
Fabian society – trip to England in 1896
International community of activists, working towards a more
egalitarian society
Received letters from women around the world
In her final years brought domestic contentment
In 1935 she committed suicide after being diagnosed with breast
cancer – she was an advocate of euthanasia
Sickness and degradation motivated Gilman to speak out
Labor movements, church groups, spoke about inequality also at the
time
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What is the text about?
Women and men were originally equal, they are a produce of
society as to why they are the weaker sex
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Women and men have the same essential organs that work the
same way and are no better or worse – their sex organs
determine their place in society not their abilities to do certain
jobs i
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a woman can be a lawyer or doctor and be just as good
as a man
Humans are the only species where the woman relies on the
man
Some female and male animals are indistinguishable at a
distance
If a woman is educated / has a job etc it does not mean she will
be less of a mother
A man baker is of a higher status than a women cook at home,
yet they have the same skill
When a girl is put in pink and a boy in blue they are already
being over-sexed when the sex babies generally are
indistinguishable until a certain age

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